2013 Les Meuniers de Clémence

The Domaine Lelarge-Pugeot has a history of well over 200 years, when the first ancestor of the Lelarge family settled in Vrigny, in the north-western part of the Petit Montagne de Reims, a village now classified as Premier Cru. Here, the long tradition of agriculture and family wine-growing began, intertwined with European history and overcoming two wars, arriving at the bottling of its first cuvées in the distant 1930s. More recently - in the early 1980s - Dominique Lelarge took over the reins of the estate and married Dominique Pugeot, his partner at the Burgundy School of Viticulture. The two founded the current Lelarge-Pugeot, and from the very beginning their production was based on sustainability and respect for nature and biodiversity. The two winegrowers move to the use of horses for work in the vineyards. Organic certification arrive in 2010, the same year in which the first cuvée 100% Meunier was bottled, from the ancestral grape of the Domaine. 
The 100% Meunier coming from the western tip of the Montagne de Reims, Vrigny a Premier Cru village dominated by Pinot Meunier.  In 2008, while the domain evolves in its approach towards organic, the Lelarge-Pugeot family signs its first red Coteaux-Champenois.

2013 Les Meuniers de Clémence 
The Champagne Extra Brut Les Meuniers De Clemence by Lelarge-Pugeot is a 100% Meunier blend from the 40-year-old vineyards in the village of Vrigny, classified as Premier Cru in the Montagne de Reims. The fermentation of this Blanc de Meunier takes place in wooden barrels, using indigenous yeasts, followed by an aging of about 3 years in the cellar. The dosage is 2 g/l of sugar - making it an Extra Brut. 
Pastry notes a first glance, freshly baked crossaint, vanilla cream and doughnuts.
Blueberry compote, orange zest and lemon curd.
Bourbon whiskey in undertone with a togarashi spiceness. 
Vinous dry, with long persistence complex aroma, steely and mineral 

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